Home -> Law Blog Directory -> Criminal Law Blogs -> Capital Defense Weekly

Criminal Law

: Capital Defense Weekly

Legal ethicists & the CCA?s presiding judge

By cdw

That the Tex CCA’s Hon. Sharon Keller is accused of some rather dishonorable conduct would be to understate things.  Today, several noted legal ethicists “pile on” indicating that it is time for her to go. In their expert declaration regarding alleged misconduct by Judge Sharon Keller to the Texas Commission on Judicial Conduct they note “her egregious misconduct ‘casts public discredit upon the judiciary [and upon the] administration of justice.’”  The ethicists conclude, “[t]hese violations are sufficiently serious to require Judge Keller be removed from the bench.” As Diane Jennings at the Dallas Morning News notes: Two dozen legal ethicists from across the country have called for Sharon Keller, presiding judge of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals to be removed from office...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on April 21, 2009 (boomark / email).